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" An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. "
Andy Warhol
People
Things
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" The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. "
William Blake
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" Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. "
Franz Liszt
Art
Artist
Destiny
" Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. "
Harold Coffin
Envy
Blessings
Art
" Trying to force creativity is never good. "
Sarah McLachlan
Trying
Art
Creativity
" I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. "
Andy Warhol
Sit
Be Happy
Happy
" Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. "
Will Rogers
People
Advertising
Art
" Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? "
JR
Change
Art
People
" I cry out for order and find it only in art. "
Helen Hayes
Out
Order
Only
" Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. "
Malcolm Muggeridge
God
Great
Life
" To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. "
Mario Vargas Llosa
Revenge
Yourself
Art
" Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. "
Dante Alighieri
Far
God
Master
" I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy. "
Jello Biafra
Body
Brain
Deep
" We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. "
Andy Warhol
Age
Art
Daily
" The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. "
Carl Rogers
Art
Essence
Judge
" A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. "
Gertrude Stein
" Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. "
Martin Luther
Music
Noble
Treasure
" Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely. "
Rick Pitino
Technology
Art
Communication
" Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours. "
Andy Warhol
Wish
Compromise
Born
" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "
Pablo Picasso
Transform
Yellow
Sun
" The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. "
Paul Gauguin
Audience
Loss
History
" Trash has given us an appetite for art. "
Pauline Kael
Appetite
Trash
Us
" There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy. "
Novala Takemoto
Happy
Me
Beauty
" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "
Will Durant
Say
Communication
Half
" All art is but imitation of nature. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nature
Imitation
Art
" The best artists know what to leave out. "
Charles de Lint
Know
Out
Best
" Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
Art
Sake
Philosophy
" Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. "
Donald Judd
Art
Most
Away
" To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. "
Morihei Ueshiba
Peace
Art
Yourself
" Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. "
Edward Thorndike
Science
Agriculture
Education
" Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. "
Woody Allen
Television
Life
Art